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    La liberté de presse: droit et devoir

    «Les décisions les plus importantes sont prises en secret», a déclaré le professeur Fred Vallance-Jones de l'Université King's College de Halifax, vendredi, lors d'un colloque à l'Université Ryerson, à Toronto. Comme lui, tout au long de cet événement qui soulignait le trentième anniversaire de la Charte des droits et libertés, de nombreux journalistes, chercheurs et…

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    Arab Spring conference calls for right to communicate

    Tunis, March 12th, 2012 (AMARC REPORT). More than a hundred associative and community media representatives, freedom of expression activists and delegates from international organizations supporting media called for the institutionalization of the right to communicate for democracy in the region during the closing of the first AMARC Conference in Mashreq and Maghreb on "Community Media…

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    #freepresscda lunch with Tony Burman

    As part of the Press Freedom in Canada conference held last week at Ryerson University, Tony Burman gave a luncheon address on his experience working for Al Jazeera English, the importance of war reporting and its implications for freedom of the press. Rhiannon Russell was there, and reports on Burman's speech. 

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    Five questions for photographer Ryan Pyle

    Ryan Pyle is a Canadian photographer living in China. Despite his photos regularly appearing in some of the most well-known English-language publications, he doesn't like to call himself a photojournalist. J-Source's Rhiannon Russell spoke with Pyle about this distinction, how he balances journalistic standards when shooting for news and what it's like working in China.

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    Courthouse Culture

    Linden MacIntyre calls it courthouse culture, but it’s not limited to courthouses. It’s the kind of thinking that 30 years ago led a court clerk in Nova Scotia, when MacIntyre asked to see the affidavits supporting a search warrant, to say no.MacIntyre fought that "no" all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada and…

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    You Can’t Say That!

    Three panellists offered three quite different perspectives on Canadian press freedom in the second session of Ryerson University’s conference on press freedom Thursday morning. The session, entitled You can’t say that! Press freedom and expression of opinion, featured two newspaper columnists and one former theatre critic.

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    NNA nominations: Globe leads with 24 and Star follows with 9

    The National Newspaper Awards unveiled the list of finalists today. Here's a quick tally of the number of nominations: Globe and Mail-24; Toronto Star-9; Waterloo Region Record-5; La Presse-4; Winnipeg Free Press-3; Canadian Press, Edmonton Journal, Halifax Chronicle-Herald, London Free Press, Postmedia News, and Reuters- 2 each. [node:ad] The winners will be announced in Toronto…